%0 Journal Article %T Pregnant Women’s Knowledge Regarding Telemedicine as Antenatal Care Strategy during Corona Pandemic %J Egyptian Journal of Health Care %I Ain Shams University, Faculty of Nursing %Z 1687-9546 %A Abdelhady Hamed, Doaa %A Mousa Soliman, Sahar %A Fathy Mohamed, Walaa %A Mohammed Attya, Amira %D 2022 %\ 12/01/2022 %V 13 %N 4 %P 1196-1205 %! Pregnant Women’s Knowledge Regarding Telemedicine as Antenatal Care Strategy during Corona Pandemic %K Telemedicine %K antenatal care %K Knowledge %R 10.21608/ejhc.2022.267730 %X Background: A COVID-19 pandemic is emerging infections and a horrible disease has beenshown to have a fatal impact on pregnant women and their fetuses. Telemedicine has become vitalto ensure safe and effective health for maternal and fetal conditions. Aim: assess pregnant women’sknowledge regarding telemedicine to be used as antenatal care strategy during corona pandemic.Research Design: A descriptive exploratory design was utilized to conduct this study. Setting: Thestudy was conducted in the Ante Natal Outpatient Clinic at Ain Shams University MaternityHospital. Sample: Convenient sample consisted of 368 women from the previous mentioned setting.Tools: tool was used; structured interviewing questionnaire was used to assess generalcharacteristics, medical and family history, obstetric history, and pregnant women’s knowledgeregarding telemedicine. Result: the current study revealed that 53.3% of studied sample had goodknowledge about telemedicine. Conclusion: The present study was concluded that about half ofpregnant women had satisfactory knowledge regarding telemedicine. Moreover, there was a highstatistical significant relation between studied sample knowledge and their educational level with pvalue <0.001, also there is significance relation between knowledge and family income with p-value0.010. Recommendation: Awareness programs should be developed up to raise women'sknowledge regarding telemedicine services & Application of instructional guideline to healthcareproviders to improve Obstetric services access via telemedicine after COVID-19 Further researches: evaluate the effect of educational programs regard telemedicine in reducing maternalmortality and morbidity among pregnant women during COVID19. %U https://ejhc.journals.ekb.eg/article_267730_d5af5e47be952a4ac2cecd2400e10735.pdf